Dr Wayne Price

Dr Wayne Price
Dr Wayne Price
Dr Wayne Price

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
w.price@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272555
Office Address

Taylor A50

King's College

University of Aberdeen

Tel: +44(0)1224272555

School/Department
School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

Biography

Wayne Price is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing. His teaching and scholarship specialisms are in 20th century American poetry and fiction, and he has published widely in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia. He has won numerous national and international awards for fiction and poetry and has twice been a finalist in the Manchester International Poetry Prize (2013 and 2014), one of the UK's richest poetry awards. His short story collection Furnace (Freight Books, 2012) was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize and nominated for the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year.

He was awarded a BA in English from the University of Wales Aberystwyth in 1987 and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1991. He contributes teaching to a number of Honours courses in modern literature and all modules on the MLitt in Creative Writing. He is currently the Undergraduate Programme Coordinator for English and Creative Writing at Aberdeen.

His most recent full-length publications are a novel, Mercy Seat (Freight Books, 2015) and a pamphlet collection of poetry, Fossil Record (Smith|Doorstop, 2015), one of Carol Ann Duffy's four 'Laureate's Choices'. His story 'Everyone's the Same Inside' appears in Best European Fiction 2017 (Dalkey Press).

Recently supervised PhDs include: 'A Wilder Tree': A creative exploration of postmemory and its function between women within the dynamic of a patriarchal family; ‘Of the Devil’s Party’: A Research Study and Creative Reimagining of Folk-Tale Archetypes and ‘Devil’s Bargains’ as a Method of Narrative Engagement with the Tensions and Complexities of Contemporary Scottish Identity; 'Orra though It Be': A North-East Short Story Collection and ExegesisVestiges of the Vampire: A Creative Exploration of Gothic Transgression in Modern Lesbian Poetry; Poetry, Accuracy and Truth: A New Translation with Exegesis of Rognavaldir's Skaldic Verse; and 'Into the Life of Things': A Creative Exploration of Nature in Poetry since Romanticism

Currently supervised PhDs:  'Border Silence': A Creative Exploration of Transcultural Lives in the Mediterranean; The Menace of Memory: Transgenerational Haunting of the Queer Adolescent in Australian YA Fiction; Echoes of War: A Creative Exploration in Fiction of Traumatic Memories in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War 

 

   

Internal Memberships

Chair of the English Department Meeting

Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, English and Creative Writing

Co-Director, The WORD Centre for Creative Writing

SGSAH Grant Holder for the PhD project ‘Of the Devil’s Party’: A Research Study and Creative Reimagining of Folk-Tale Archetypes and ‘Devil’s Bargains’ as a Method of Narrative Engagement
with the Tensions and Complexities of Contemporary Scottish Identity (Lily Greenall)

Course Convenorships:

EL5567 Creative Writing: Fiction

EL40YC Kingdom of the Mad: Self & Place in 20th Century American Poetry

EL40XX Creative Writing: The Writer's Voice

EL35YB Creative Writing: Creativity & Craft (team taught)

EL1009 Acts of Reading (team taught)

 

 

Research

Research Overview

My research takes the form of original writing in prose fiction and poetry. Selected recent publications include:

Fossil Record (Smith|Doorstop, in press for publication May 2015)

'Sergeant Pepper, Sunshine Superman' (short story), in Edinburgh Review  Issue 141 (2015)

Mercy Seat (Freight Books, 2015)

Five Poems and biographical feature in The North Issue 53 (Winter 2014)

A selection of poems in CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (Smith|Doorstop, 2014)

Four Poems in Northwords Now  Issue 28 (Autumn 2014)

Two prizewinning poems in The Fish Anthology (Fish Publishing, 2013)

'The Boys of Summer' (short story), in Gutter Issue 10 (2014) 

Furnace (Freight Books, 2012)

 

Collaborations

Granite Sound, a soundscape project by Professor Pete Stollery and Dr Suk-Jun Kim:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/8368/

Funding and Grants

In 2011 I was awarded a Creative Scotland/Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award towards the completion of a second collection of short stories set in south Wales during the miners' strike.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

EL5567 Creative Writing: Fiction (Convenor)

EL5095 Creative Writing: Non-fiction prose (team taught)

EL40YC Kingdom of the Mad: Self & Place in 20th Century American Poetry (Convenor)

EL40XX Creative Writing: The Writer's Voice (Convenor)

EL3009 American Innovations: 19th and 20th Century American Literature (team taught)

EL35YB Creative Writing: Creativity & Craft (Convenor, team taught)

EL1009 Acts of Reading (Convenor, team taught)

EL1513 Controversial Classics (team taught)